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Expelled pro-Kurdish MP‘s ‘justice watch’ at parliament in third day
Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, a former MP from the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) who was stripped of his parliamentary status on Wednesday and has...
39 inmates with COVID-19 held together in one ward at Silivri Prison: report
Thirty-nine prisoners with COVID-19 are being held in
the same ward at Turkey’s notorious Silivri Prison, which houses some 23,000
inmates, according to the Gazete Duvar...
Former public servants in custody threatened with sexual abuse: report
Former public servants who were detained on Wednesday
over membership in the faith-based Gülen movement were subjected to ill treatment
and threatened with sexual abuse, according...
HDP deputy reports another abduction of Turkish national
Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) deputy and human rights activist Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu on Sunday said another Turkish national was abducted by Turkey’s intelligence agency...
Prison demands inmate’s defense for keeping newborn daughter’s sock in locker
A document shared by an opposition deputy on Sunday revealed that a Turkish prison administration demanded an official defense from a purge victim to...
Despite end of state of emergency in Turkey, passport limitations persist for the purged
Passport limitations on purged state personnel, particularly academics dismissed from universities, are continuing although the state of emergency that led to those restrictions was...
Parliamentary commission ignores HDP deputy’s petitions on rights violations
The Turkish Parliament’s Human Rights Commission has so far responded to none of the letters submitted to it by one of its own members,...
3-year-old in intensive care, purge victim parents in detention after boat tragedy
A three-year-old Turkish boy is fighting for his life and his parents are in police custody after their boat capsized in the Aegean Sea...
Human rights defender suspended for social media message
Dr. Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, spokesperson for the Kocaeli Peace Platform and former head of the Association of Human Rights and Solidarity for Oppressed Peoples...